Imam Khomeini’s special message on the advent and arrival of the holy month of Ramadan

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

With the coming of the holy month of Ramadan, the month of mercy, forgiveness and blessings, I beseech God, the Exalted, to make all the Muslims more aware of the duties and responsibilities that the Creator of the worlds has given them; the responsibility of preserving the divine laws and acting upon the Holy Qur'an which is the foundation of the revival of the honor and grandeur of Islam and the Muslims; the responsibility of preserving the unity of expression and being kind to brothers in faith as it is the guarantor of the Muslim countries' independence and the expulsion of the colonial influence; the responsibility of discarding personal interests and sacrificing in the way of regaining what were lost through differences of expression; the heavy responsibility of the governments of Muslim countries in acting upon the Qur'an and Islam, freedom from the yoke of imperialism, and being at the service of the Islamic nation.
The responsibilities at the present time are perhaps more than those in the past; a time when the malicious claws of the imperialists have penetrated the depths of Muslim countries and by all possible means through their agents they try create disunity among the Muslims as well as the heads of Muslim countries. Through various means they dissuade the Muslims from resorting to Islam and the Qur’an so that they could easily attain their inhuman objectives which are the exploitation of the deprived class. It is a time when, by designating their agents in the corners and sides of the Muslim countries under different names and deceitful titles- and at times, under the name of Islam- the imperialists have sidetracked the culture of the Qur’an and they open as wide as possible the way for their exploitation…
In this state of affairs haven't the Muslims and governments of Islamic countries duty to God, the Exalted, and to their logic and conscience?...I hope that during these blessed days the awakened and wary Muslims, especially the pious servants of God and the distinguished ‘ulama’, will pray for the deliverance of the Muslims from the evil clutches of the foreigners; in the religious assemblies during the holy month of Ramadan and other great Islamic gatherings such as Friday prayer congregations and the hajj rites to disseminate the truth to all Muslims; and to call on the followers of the Qur'an to the unity of expression and collaboration for the liberation of Palestine and solving the destructive problems befalling the Islamic nation.
I beseech God, the Exalted, to cut off the hands of the foreigners from the Muslim lands." Verily He is the hearer and answerer

Rouhullah al-Mousawi al-Khomeini
[Ramadan al-Mubarak 3, 1392 AH]

Sahifeh-ye Imam, vol. 2, pp. 480